Note: From a casual perusal of Greek sources, I didn't notice any phrase similar to, "My _____ will hurt." Is there a better/alternate way to say this than what I have written?

ἀλγήσω + acc. of respect.

(Cf. ὀδονταλγέω and γομφιάζω.)

I didn't think of ἀλγεῖν. I should've. I think I've seen it a few times in Plato's Republic. The other words wouldn't have worked for what I had in mind, but you couldn't possibly have known that. My teeth were fine, and I have only had three cavities in my life. It's the fact that my mouth gets cut to pieces during the cleaning that causes me such grief! Every nick becomes a sore that takes weeks to go away.

After looking at several different examples, I agree with your suggestion that the βάλλειν verbs would have been a better choice for what I was trying to convey. More specifically, I think that its various compounded forms are focused to a larger degree on the result of the action. How well do you think προσβάλλειν would do in that context? I believe that with or without circumlocutions it could be forced into service.

The prefixed preposition προσ- is used:

(a) syntactically to add an extra detail to the verb - increase valence in a certain way - ie to make us think about something in addition to the action itself, eg προσμένειν "to remain in a situation where another person / thing is" - we think about two things, and προσεγγίζειν makes us think strongly / clearly about the other person or thing that is being approached.
(b) semantically to make us thing about something (else), eg προσποιέω "I make somebody think one is doing something".

Βάλλω being a movement, the logical relationship between one thing and another is where it is goin, so προσβάλλω might be okay. Perhaps you could put what you were shooting at in the dative, and the lead in the accusative.

Stephen Hughes wrote:Βάλλω being a movement, the logical relationship between one thing and another is where it is goin, so προσβάλλω might be okay. Perhaps you could put what you were shooting at in the dative, and the lead in the accusative.

This is what I suspect as well. I will do a little digging this evening, and see what I come up with.

Note: I intentionally searched for a word in each reference so that one of the words in the link will be highlighted. I hope this will make the references much easier to find for those who wish to do so.

The following sentences are additional practice with Eleanor Dickey's Greek Composition Book. I am trying to avoid any exercises from the book on the chance that a student might stumble upon them. Instead, I am trying to make up sentences that use the same vocabulary and focus on the same skills. Hopefully, I will find some measure of success.

Chapter 1 Practice Sentences:

1) Some women are sacrificing, but others (women) are not.
2) The horses are carrying books in the marketplace.
3) Today's men want to find good women.
4) The master is wanting to find his slave, but the slave is not wanting to be found.
5) The messengers are teaching the brothers well.
6) The master is teaching the slaves, but they are not learning.
7) The master is carrying his brother to sacrifice in the market. (to be sacrificed )
8) Today's men cannot find horses to eat.
9) The poets do not eat by teaching.
10) The horse wants to eat slaves.

I'm trying not to go beyond (or at the very least much beyond) the information in chapter one, and this is not the way that I would feel comfortable writing some of these sentences. Do numbers 7, 8, and 10 even work?